Will .22lr ever be cheap, plentiful and/or affordable again?
- Thread starter cath8r
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- Location
- Windsor, Ontario
Ammo prices never go down...better investment than silver lol
- Location
- British Canuckistan
wish I had $1 million...I'd start up my own rimfire plant in Canada.
Our prices tend to fluctuate based on the cost of the dollar. For example the Winchester 9mm value packs (currently sold out) were priced at about $34.00 per 100 rounds about 5 months back, but the last time we had them in the dollar had shifted enough that we had them for $29.99
It's a lot more noticeable when prices go up, but they do indeed come down sometimes.
Rob, Tim has it on point. There's lots of ammo out there, prices vary based on brand & quality, but there's certainly options.
22LR ammo on our site
- Location
- West Quebec
Think it will be a whole lot more than a million...
Remember that Canada is just a drop in the bucket regarding ammo sales compared to the US, prices not likely to drop significantly unless everyone stopped buying altogether and even then could only drop to a point where Cdn. dealers would find it unprofitable and just stop carrying it.
/endthread lol
Will we ever see a 60 cent can of beer again? ;-)
My understanding is the problem facing us as .22 addicts in Canada is two fold - First, no one in the US is building any new .22rf production plants and the current ones are running at capacty (plus CIL is permanently out of the ammo biz) - frequent down times for equipment repair or material shortages, translate to a dry spell at retailers. When supplys are available US demand are serviced first and we get the leavings. Aguila in Mexico was bought by a major US firm and has doubled their .22 output and quality, but it doesn't seem to put a dent in demand. Then there is the currency exchange which has added most of the increases to .22 costs.
Personally. I blame .22 autoloaders - so many today, when .22s were in their prime it was mostly 5-10 shot repeaters and single shots and no one had the high cap mags they do today. I can say with certainty the amount of .22 brass I see at ranges now is a lot more than when I first started shooting - so to be less verbose: we shoot more .22s and we have the same production supply.
My understanding is the problem facing us as .22 addicts in Canada is two fold - First, no one in the US is building any new .22rf production plants and the current ones are running at capacty (plus CIL is permanently out of the ammo biz) - frequent down times for equipment repair or material shortages, translate to a dry spell at retailers. When supplys are available US demand are serviced first and we get the leavings. Aguila in Mexico was bought by a major US firm and has doubled their .22 output and quality, but it doesn't seem to put a dent in demand. Then there is the currency exchange which has added most of the increases to .22 costs.
Personally. I blame .22 autoloaders - so many today, when .22s were in their prime it was mostly 5-10 shot repeaters and single shots and no one had the high cap mags they do today. I can say with certainty the amount of .22 brass I see at ranges now is a lot more than when I first started shooting - so to be less verbose: we shoot more .22s and we have the same production supply.
For $39 I can get 500 thunderbolt. For $40+ I can get 20 premium .270 rounds. 40 if I handload. Even the ultra-premium target .22 LR like X-act is still half the cost per round as handloaded centerfire. Perspective is always nice. Will we ever see 70 cent/L gas now that a barrel of oil is at an all time low?
